Closure for paper packages.



G. P. JENKINS.

GLOSURE FOR PAPER PACK-AGES.

APPLIoATIoN FILED un 4, 1909.

A Patepted Dec. 14, 1909.

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UNITED srrns rArnNr onirica.

CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS, or WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or COLUMBIA, AssIGNoa To SINGLE SERVICE PACKAGE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CLOSURE FDE. PAPER PACKAGES.

speeiacation of Letters Patent;-

/ 'Application filed May 4, 1809. Serial No. 493,913.

.To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS, a citizen ofthe United States, re-

siding at Washington, in the ,District'of Columbia, havel invented certain new and use? ful Improvements in Closures for Paper Packages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full. clear, and exact description of the invention, suoli as Will enable othersl skilled in the art to which it? apperlains to make and use the saln'e.

This invention relates to spirally wound paper packages, and especially to the closures thereof, and has for itsobject the production of a cheap and efficient closure which will enable substantially the entire mouth of the bottle to be opened, and which may be inserted into said vessels after the manner of a4 plug stopper, all as will appear hereinafter.

To these ends the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals refer to like parts in all the viewsz1 `igure l represents a longitudinal sectional View of a paper vessel 'provided with my closure. Fig. 2, a top plan View of the same with the closure partially broken away. Fig. 3, a tube divided into sections out of which the bodyl portion, as Well as the ring seat for the closure may be formed, and Fig. 4.-, a diagrammatic view of a machine adapted for 'readily cutting the necessary parts from a continuous tube.

1 represents the body ofthe vessel whichis out from sections 2 of a continuous tube in the manner well known. 3 represents a ring inserted into said body portion 1, which is likewise cut from the same tube from which the said body portion 1s Cut; and 4 represents a suitable disk closure seating upon the ring 3. Y

- 5 represents the usual inverted cup shaped bottom closure that is well known in this class of vessels, which is secured in place by any suitable means.

jthem in place as may be p nishes the sections 2, as indicated in Fig. 3;

and therefore the rings 3 are of the same diameter as said body portion and are consequently too large to .enter the same. In order to reduce them in diameter and to perlmit said rings to` be inserted into said body portions 1, they are passed through a suitable machine and provided with the inturned crinkled portions 6, as illustrated in Fig. 2. This enables the said rings to be easily and quickly inserted into the body portlons, and they rest therein by their own resiliency and friction, or they may be sup plied with an adhesive for firmly holding desired. represents a .suitable mandrel over which the spirally Wound tube may be `placed and cut into suitable sections by the circular cutter 8, which cutter Aalso severs the rlng sections 3', After the rings are Patented Dec. 14, 1909.`

severed theymay be slipped along the mandrel 7 'and subjected to a suit-able mechanism, not shown, and thereby provided without substantial'cost with the crinkled portions 6.

In vfilling and closing these bottles by machinery thering 3 may be adjusted along the length of the body 1, until the rests upon the contents, While the air escapes around the edge of the disk. This causes the contents to completely fill the bottle without danger of spilling over. and when the cementing material holding the ring in place has set, the whole constitutes a firm package. v ,s What I Claim is 4 -1. In a Vbottle the combination with a body portion; a bottom closure; and a top closure consisting of a disk and a ring forming a seat for said disk, said ring being "of the same size as said body portion and provided with a lcrinkled portion permitting the same to enter saidvbody portion. substantially as described. f

2. In a bottle the combination with a cylindrical spirally wound body portion; an inverted flangedcup shaped bottom closure:

disk 4 Y a disliiclosing the top ofsad body lool-tion; In .testimony whereof, aiiix my signaand a ring forming a seat for said disk, said tre, in presence of two Wltnesses.

ring being cylindrical and of the same dil ameter as said body portion= and provided CHARLES'FRANGIS JENKINS' with a Acrinkle'd'portion 6 permitting it tol Witnesses: enter said body portion, substantially as de- R. M. PARKER,"'

scribed. l T. A. WITHERsPooN. 

